RELEASE YOUR INNER DOCTOR
Meet Sara Lacey, Your
Local Acupuncturist
I believe in the body’s quiet wisdom, the way it knows how to return to balance when given space and support. At SJL Acupuncture, I offer integrated Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Five Element acupuncture, with two clinic options: one in Cheltenham and one in Kingshill, Dursley.
My approach is calm, grounded, and shaped around what’s happening in your life. You can explore treatments, choose the clinic that suits you best, and book your appointment online. Whether you’re seeking ease from pain, stress, or simply craving more balance, my aim is to help you feel calm, connected, and at home in your body.
What Is Acupuncture?
Acupuncture is a form of complementary medicine which has been practised to promote and maintain good health for over 2000 years. Acupuncture considers it’s patient as a whole, rather than focusing on or treating isolated symptoms. It seeks to resolve the root cause of each patient’s issues, rather than simply treating the symptoms that manifest. Acupuncture brings balance and harmony to patients and many report an enhanced sense of well-being following treatment. The World Health Organisation lists acupuncture for many different conditions and the British Acupuncture Council present many compelling research articles about its successes.
Ancient Medicine, Present-Moment Care.
Acupuncture is more than symptom relief. It’s a way of helping the whole system come back into balance. At SJL, my aim is to support the body’s natural healing response. Each treatment is shaped around how you arrive that day — physically, emotionally, seasonally.
Acupuncture Through The Seasons
HOW IT CAN SUPPORT YOU IN REAL LIFE
Perhaps you have a main complaint in mind that you’d like help with, whether that is chronic pain or injury or a physical or mental diagnosis you need support with. But you don’t have to be unwell to benefit from acupuncture. It can be a way to tend to yourself, to rebalance, to restore, and to reconnect. Whoever you are, and wherever life finds you, acupuncture can offer gentle support along the way.
Acupuncture meets you where you are in the shifting seasons of your life, through times of growth, rest, and change. It offers a space to pause, reconnect, and find balance to get the body, mind, and spirit moving together again.
For those walking the path of fertility, pregnancy, or postpartum healing, acupuncture offers quiet, nurturing care. A space to be held, to restore energy, and to honour the body’s remarkable work.
For young adults, acupuncture can bring steadiness amid the noise, perhaps supporting menstrual cycles, digestion, mental clarity, and transitions that come with becoming yourself.
In midlife, acupuncture supports the body’s shifting tides, easing hormonal changes, soothing tension, tending to sleep and energy, and helping you stay connected to your centre.
Wherever you are in your journey, acupuncture offers more than treatment. It’s an invitation to come home to yourself again and again.
And in later life, it can bring vitality, mobility, and a sense of calm presence, supporting the body to age with ease and grace.
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CHOOSE YOUR CLINIC
Acupuncture in Cheltenham or Dursley
Private 1-to-1 Sessions at Kingshill in Dursley or the Promenade in Cheltenham
These sessions take place in a calm, individual space where you can fully relax, unwind, and receive treatment tailored entirely to you. I'm in my private clinic in Cheltenham Tuesday to Thursday, and in Dursley on Fridays.
Your choice, your rhythm.
You don’t have to commit to one or the other, you can choose whichever is more convenient and suits your schedule. Patients can float between both clinics, depending on what works best for them at the time. It’s all about making acupuncture accessible, supportive, and easy to fit into your life.
Why Choose SJL Acupuncture
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Professional, gentle and intuitive approach that meets you exactly where you are.
Treatments rooted in the time-honoured practices of Chinese medicine, blending tradition with modern understanding.
A calm, nurturing space to pause, restore, and reconnect with yourself.
Finding, treating and eradicating the root cause of illness, not just hiding symptoms.
Treatment from a BAcC-registered practitioner and care that fits around your life
Patient Stories
I was lucky enough to find Sara a few weeks ago after searching for a local Acupuncturist to help with a horrid back spasm.....and am so grateful to have received her amazing help. In just a few weeks she has gently - with great kindness, understanding, skill and care - relieved the spasm and the pain that l was in. I cannot recommend Sara enough. She immediately puts you at ease, listens and is just brilliant.
I've been really blown away if I'm honest of just how powerful Saras acupuncture sessions have been! Each time it's shifted things for me and allowed me to release stored emotions giving a feeling of renewed energy In life. Sara is incredibly intuitive always knowing exactly what I need! I honestly don't think id be seeking out traditional doctors again after experiencing the power of this!
Wow I am so glad I booked to see Sara, my back pain has gone, no more pain and restful nights sleep now which is great. It has helped hugely with the menopause too. I just wished I had started it earlier. Sara is so lovely very friendly, extremely knowledgeable, a real tonic and I cannot recommend her enough to people.
Amazing experience, years of migraines and headaches cured within the hour. I must admit I never would have believed that a few needles could help me. Will 100% recommend.
I was recommended to see Sara & was sceptical she could help me but to my joy & amazement within 24hrs the pain started to ease. I didn’t think it would last but it has & I can’t thank Sara enough as my Dr wasn’t doing anything. Sara is very professional & caring. She’s not at all pushy. She really listens to how you are feeling. Thank you Sara
Sara has the most amazing presence and has supported me with my experience of chronic pain. I feel safe, supported, seen and heard which has helped me so much. I would definitely recommend.
